The scholar was not raised by the sacred thoughts amongst which he dwelt, but used them to selfish ends. He was a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only by the supernatural is a man strong--only by confiding in the divinity which stirs within us. Nothing is so weak as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything is prospective, and man is to live hereafter. That the world is for his education is the only sane solution of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Of all debts, men are least willing to pay their taxes; what a satire this is on government. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Let a stoic open the resources of man, and tell men they are not leaning willows, but can and must detach themselves;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self control is the rule. Anger is an uncontrollable feeling that betrays what you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
It is easy to see that a greater self-reliance must work a revolution in all the offices and relations of men; in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you have a nation of men who have risen to that height of moral cultivation that they will not declare war… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a persuasion in the soul of man that he is here for cause, that he was put down in this… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Strong men greet war, tempest, hard times. They wish, as Pindar said, to tread the floors of hell, with necessities as hard… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she qualifies men for that and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A part of fate is the freedom of man. Forever wells up the impulse of choosing and acting in his soul. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Women have a less accurate measure of time than men; there is a clock in Adam, none in Eve. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men of character are the conscience of the society to which they belong. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The height, the deity of man is to be self-sustained, to need no gift, no foreign force. Society is good when it… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
